Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Nah, if there's a way to set each voice's pitch separately then you
can detune them. It all depends on how that tone generator chip was
designed.


--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "jure zitnik" <kokoon@...> wrote:
>
> so you mean the non-unison mono mode would still trigger separate voices
> succesively? so, for instance, vca release would take effect and would
> result in polyphonic effect? personally i wouldn't like that and would
> prefer mono to behave as a single-osc mono synth... unison wouldn't make
> much sense cause the oscillator is a dco and all of them would be
constantly
> hard-synced (you'd notice nothing but increase in loudness?)
> 
> cheers,
> jure
> 
> On 10/16/06, patrioticduo < patrioticduo@...> wrote:
> >
> >   Two great questions with long winded answers.
> >
> > First, I think the MSM5232 might be able to do some primitive
> > frequency slides. I'm just not certain how fine grained the slide
> > would be.
> >
> > In my searching on the Internet, all I could find on the MSM5232 TG
> > was emulation C code written by a guy called Jarek Burczynski for the
> > MAME project. The MAME project is a freeware Arcade game emulator.
> > Jared wrote the emulation for the MSM5232 chip because so many of the
> > old arcade games used this chip for sound generation. His code is not
> > commented nearly well enough for me to determine just exactly what the
> > chip can or cannot do. And to make matters worse, trying to work out
> > what a chip does from emulation code is kind of backward. I've called
> > numerous arcade repairers looking for the datasheet. I've tried OKI
> > themselves, who were helpful but ultimately failed to provide a
> > datasheet. And I've called a couple of other old chip distributors.
> > All attempts so far have failed.
> >
> > I still have some inquiries out there. So hopefully, I will still get
> > my hands on the datasheet. In the end though, if I have to reverse
> > engineer the thing from scratch then so be it.
> >
> > Second, in my opinion mono node will operate in both unison and non
> > unison modes. And mono mode will be designed to operate closely with
> > the arpeggiator and the portmento functions. If you enable unison then
> > the arpeggiator and portmento functions (if also enabled) operate on
> > all 8 voices simultaneously. If you enable mono mode without unison
> > then arpeggiator would be activated per individual voice and
> > portamento would slide each voice independently as well.
> >
> > Right?
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> >  
> >
>